[lit-ideas] Re: Of flying and counting

Raven at my in-cawtious post, Donal asserts: as the growing field of crow cognitive science increasingly recognises, it their ability at chess that disproves that . . . in tests where the chess pieces are all pieces of carrion, the crows carry out a very thorough and numerate inventory at the end of each game to make sure the pieces are properly divided between them.
Jim Crow laws in chess determine that white pieces are separate from black pieces until the game is over. While statisticians have shown that crows prefer Bird's Opening (1. P-KB4 or f2-f4), these same statisticians assert that crows often run afowl of poisoned pawn positions, preening themselves on their ability to overcome positional disadvantage. 

It has also been established that they favor rook and pawn endgames.

As for their post-game analysis, it's pretty much the way Donal says it is.


Avoiding the Straw-man argument,
Eric
in rags
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